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Developing infrastructures and services to connect West Africans to the digital economy

Welcome to West Africa Com!

West Africa Com unites the West African Francophone and Anglophone Technology, Media and Telecoms Markets. The event makes sense of how the telco value chain can leverage its assets to deliver low cost broadband connectivity and digital services to the consumers and enterprises of West Africa.

Expanding Broadband Connectivity across West Africa

How operators can work in partnership with governments and regulators to drive efficiencies in the region

Driving Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Empowering West African startups to get traction in the market

The Fintech Revolution

Increasing penetration and usage rates of digital financial services

Embracing Cloud Based Services

Expanding broadband infrastructures to transform enterprise across the region

Building Regulatory Frameworks to Accelerate Digital Transformation

How operators and regulators are breaking the cycle of bad quality of service

Networking and Interaction with the West African TMT Community

Exclusive Post-Event Poolside Party

Network with your peers in a relaxed and informal poolside setting. This is an excellent opportunity to re-connect with existing colleagues or clients and develop new relationships with West African technology, media, and telecoms leaders.

Speed Networking Sessions with Executive Leaders

Meet and exchange business cards with the most senior and influential people present at the event. Pitch your most exciting product or service face-to-face and build the foundations of a future commercial relationship.

Interactive Behind Closed Doors Boardroom Sessions

Find another level of depth to the conference topics with these private and strictly limited roundtable discussions around the most important areas of development within the West African TMT Sector.

“The Connecting West Africa Conference allows you to not only connect on the issues confronting the West African telecom sector, but also connect with the companies and individuals that can help you find solutions to your needs.”

Kolubahzizi Howard

Director of Strategy

Liberia Telecommunications Authority

“Efficiency! Efficiency! Efficiency! This event has provided an insight into the challenge for all MNO in terms of exponential growth in bandwidth demand and how to balance network efficiency and profitability. Thank you for the great opportunity!”

Ismail Ibrahim

Satellite Services Manager

MTN Nigeria

“The idea of the Speed Networking was fantastic! It gave vendors the opportunity to have one to one interaction with the operators”

Chinedu Dike

Sales Director West and Central Africa

Tecnotree Finland

“We really appreciate the opportunity of connecting operators to telco providers.As a telecom operator, it will be very beneficial for us to get involved with the local vendors as we have done in Speed Networking. Presenting and working with the providers in the telecom field, will help us to continuously keep the connection between the companies. Thanks”

Khadim Rassoul Diop

Field Operation Director

Expresso Senegal

“Today’s event has been very interesting for us. There was a great amount of suppliers which we met in Speed Networking with a rich portfolio of products and solutions. The speakers and panellists were very experienced in the field”